A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.
Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.
Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.
When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.
…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.
All in all, death is something like marriage.
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.
This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.
Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"
On a baby of his own: You gotta be married first. That's my rule: marriage then baby!
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic. We go to the real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It's a perfect marriage between fact and fiction.
Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding. . . That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.
I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.